What's that you say? You made a New Year's resolution but
haven't kept it? You vowed to sharpen your programming skills, write a cool
application, AND use cutting edge operating system technology? Look no further,
you have come to the right place. This article will get you started writing applications for
Haiku, the open source version of the advanced BeOS operating system.

R1A1 (the first Alpha) is starting to age quite a bit. For better performance try one of the recent nightles. (however avoid any nightlies between Feb 1 - 20th 2010.. there was major kernel work going on which caused data corruption/etc... that stuff should be fixed now though)